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Until someone puts a 7-story crane in the parking lot, this is the last angle available to me:


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It's hard to see, but it you can make out a V-shaped crane in the upper left, that's Ground Zero.

I think it's supposed to go up one floor per week.

......from a mile away.

(The figure on top of the courthouse dome is entitled “Enlightenment Giving Power”.)

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THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT HACKENSACK:

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1916 Hackensack, New Jersey flag cancel on church picture postcard. Church is unidentified. Note cross on the top of the spire.



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Here's an old enamel-on-steel sign from the Comfort Coal & Lumber Co., which as far as I can tell was located in Bergen County, New Jersey. This sign is 45.25" long and 8.5" wide. It's in decent condition, with noticeable wear, and some missing enamel around the mounting holes.



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Just keep in mind that when you deal with the SHPO and and others in that department, you are dealing with a bunch of self serving nut jobs.

That's an understatement!

When Nextel wanted to put a dozen cell antennas on my building, SHPO is the brilliant bunch who decided that placing them well-hidden (and below me) on the facade was too visible (cell antennas aren't supposed to be visible on historic buildings and they considered my building historic), so they looked at the building's blueprints and determined that human beings couldn't possibly live in the penthouse - only elevators live there - even though I had already been living there for 14 years.

Even after finding out that the penthouse has a tenant and has had tenants for the previous 75 years, they allowed the antennas to be placed up here and grossly violated their own visibility standard because the antennas can be seen from Teaneck.

"No adverse effects", they told the FCC and that's why we have the ugliest roof in town.

The Bergen County Historical Society and the Bergen County Board of Freeholders both passed resolutions against the super-visible antennas and every politician around asked SHPO to change their recommendation to the FCC - that's all they had to do and the antennas would be gone.

They ignored and stonewalled everybody and everything.

SHPO is the WORST government agency in the state.....and you've really got to be bad to earn THAT title!




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Hackensack train station closer to losing historical designation
Thursday, February 24, 2011
BY MONSY ALVARADO
The Record
STAFF WRITER

...“We no longer have a particular artifact. It was listed, and if it doesn’t exist, the listing doesn’t exist,” said Philetus Holt, chairman of the board before the vote...

I have an artifact. I pulled it from the rubble when I took the next-day pictures posted earlier in this thread. Albert may recall me sending the below image to him.

The top part shows the piece before I cleaned it off and the middle part is after. The piece of black material on the far right came from something in the rubble pile - probably from The Green Caboose.

Unless someone's got something better, doesn't this deserve a partial historical designation?

It's like having a moon rock - it ain't the moon, but..................

Actually, more than 200º.

In this one picture you can see: the apartment building at 40 Passaic St (at State St), the PSE&G facility in Ridgefield by the Turnpike, the Bergen County Courthhouse, the Middle School, The First Presbyterian Church, Hackensack Hospital, all the high-rises on Prospect, the First Baptist Church and School, the new building at 29 Linden, the apartment building at 5 Pangborn Place, Anderson Park, the apartment building at 70 Anderson, the Holy Trinity Convent, the apartment buildings at 46 and 50 Anderson, and Holy Trinity Church's snow-covered steeple (and lots more). If it had been a clear day, you would also see midtown Manhattan, Garret Mountain in Paterson, and the Ramapo Mountains in New York State.

My new little camera has a PhotoStitch program that's kind of fun, but FAR from perfect. I took 6 pictures from my roof as I moved in a slow semi-circle, leaving a bit of the previous shot in the frame for the program to stitch together.

Unfortunately, there is some edge curvature that might not have existed in the previous frame and the resultant stitching looks like it was done by Stevie Wonder, or, in this case, someone with a blind rage against two of our churches.

The hi-rises in the background are not exactly vertically parallel to each other either, but this program is still an interesting feature that I'm gonna have to explore some more.

Because the final picture is about 7 times wider than the image I posted below, you'll have to click on the link to see it full-size - warts and all. And then be sure to click on the resultant image to get the big picture and then scroll away.


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